Organising

A community is how you run races on bdr. It owns your machines, seasons and races, and drivers find your events under its name. This page covers starting one and what running it involves.

Start a community

1. Sign in, then select Start hosting on your dashboard, or Host an event on the Communities page.
2. Fill in Start a community:
   • Name: 2 to 80 characters. Drivers see this on your races.
   • URL slug (lowercase, dashes): the short name in your community's address, for example friday-gt3. Use 3 to 40 lowercase letters, digits and dashes, starting and ending with a letter or digit. Every slug is unique on the platform.
   • Description: optional.
3. Select Create.

bdr opens your community's page with a getting-started checklist that leads to the first race. See Community setup.

Once you belong to a community's staff (owner, admin or steward), Organise appears in the top bar. It opens your overview across all your communities. Its first row counts what needs you: Reports to decide, Machines in trouble, your running Open servers and the Races coming up. Below, each has a card that links to where you deal with it. The Communities list shows every community you belong to; select one to open it. A steward opens the community's Open servers instead, the only one of its pages they see: its running lobbies, with their passwords and admin password, but without the controls to open, change or stop one.

What you do as an organiser

bdr runs the race day for you. You set things up:

1. Register a machine and start the host agent on it.
2. Create a season, add a series, pick a track for each week and generate the races.
3. Publish the season.

From then on, bdr handles each race on schedule:

• It opens signups 7 days before the race and closes them 60 seconds before the start.
• It splits the field by rating and gives each split a server with an entry list of its drivers.
• It starts an ACC server on your machine for each split, and stops it afterwards.
• It collects the result files and updates standings and ratings.

You can also step in by hand. On the season page you can open signups early, lock a race, cancel it, or upload a result file. The race's own page has the same actions in its Organiser panel, Upload result included, plus a link back to the season page. See Seasons and series.

Where to find each task:

• Your community's page: the checklist, seasons, servers and what is running now. Its tab bar leads to Open servers, Members and Settings. See Community setup.
• Machines: the machines your races run on. Open it with Machines on your community's Servers card. See Machines.
• A season's page: series, tracks, races and results. See Seasons and series.
• New single event: one race on one evening. See Single events.
• A server's page: what a race server ran and how hard it worked. See Race servers.

Roles

Each member of a community has one of three roles:

Role	What it allows
Owner	Everything an admin can do, plus the staff: inviting people, changing roles, removing them. You become an owner of a community you create. A community can have several owners.
Admin	Manage the community: machines, servers, API keys, seasons, series, races and results.
Steward	Decide the reports from the community's races. It does not open the organiser pages.

Only owners and admins can open a community's organiser page. Anyone else sees "You do not manage that community." Signup passwords, the invite link, admin passwords and Discord webhooks are only shown to owners and admins. See Staff for adding people.

Staff

The Staff card on your community's Members tab lists its owners, admins and stewards.

1. An owner picks them under Driver, which lists your roster. Someone who is not on it, such as a moderator of your Discord, you find by typing part of their name or their SteamID64 under Find a driver. They need to have signed in to bdr once.
2. The owner picks a role and selects Invite.
3. They find the invitation on their dashboard and on Organise, and select Accept or Decline. Until then, an owner can Withdraw it.

Owners change anyone's role in the list, their own included, and Remove people from the staff. Anyone on the staff can Leave.

A community always keeps one owner. The last owner can't step down, leave or delete their account: make someone else an owner first. The owner marked main contact is the one the platform writes to. When that person stops being an owner, another owner becomes the main contact.

Members

Your drivers can join your community, for example your clan or your league's regulars. A series set to Community members only takes signups from them and from your organisers, nobody else. Use it for a relaxed members' night next to your open series.

1. On your community's page, select the Members tab.
2. Select Make an invite link, then Copy, and share the link, for example in your Discord.
3. A driver who opens the link and signs in through Steam selects Join. They appear on the roster.

Being a member changes nothing else for a driver. They can leave from the same link, and you can Remove anyone from the roster. Make a new link replaces the link: the old one stops working at once, so use it if the link was shared where it should not have been. Drivers who already joined stay members.

Stewarding your races

Reports from your community's races are yours to decide: owners, admins and stewards find them under Stewarding on the Organise page, and decide on the report page. A driver can appeal your decision once, to the platform's stewards, who can let it stand or overturn it. Reports from official communities' races go to the platform's stewards directly. See Stewarding and Reports.

Bans

When your stewards uphold a report with ban days, the driver is banned from your community's races until then. The Bans card on the Members tab lists the bans in force, with the report each came from; owners and admins can Lift one early. Your Bans channel on Discord hears of each ban and each lift (see Community setup).

Your open lobbies can't refuse a banned driver: ACC lets in anyone who meets its own checks. When one joins, the Bans channel is told, at most once per half hour for the same driver and lobby. Kick them in game with the lobby's admin password: /admin, then /kick and their car number.

Ranked and unranked hosts

Your community's badge shows Ranked host or Unranked host. New communities start unranked. To become ranked, ask for it from the Ranked status card on your community's page; the platform team decides. See Ranked status.

A ranked host still chooses per series: each series is Ranked or Unranked under Ratings, so you can run a ranked league and an unranked fun night side by side. An unranked host's series are always unranked. When your community becomes ranked, its existing series stay unranked until you switch each one to Ranked.

	Unranked host, or an unranked series	Ranked series of a ranked host
Results and race pages	Yes	Yes
Season points and standings	Yes	Yes
Safety Rating changes	No	Yes
ELO changes	No	Yes, if at least 6 drivers took part

Drivers see unranked on your races, so they know whether a race affects their rating. See Ratings.